Word: wave
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Embassy Negotiator Lewis Townsend at one point: "I'm not sure we're even on the same wave length." Last week Pan Am Chairman Juan T. Trippe and President Harold Gray succeeded in ironing out some of the problems, assigned a team of experts to explore possible technical assistance for Air Viet...
...indeed the stuff of which cables are made. But it may be well to ask ourselvse whether the United States or the West has any short-range advantage or any long-range interest in this course of conduct. If, as seems likely, Europe's politicians are riding a secular wave of anti-Americanism and general je m'en foutisme, why not leave them alone for a while? So long as the nations of Europe are protected against military conquest by the American nuclear guarantee, made more real by the presence of several divisions of American troops as hostages...
...unprecedented prosperity, besides sending Spain's annual economic growth rate soaring to 9%, have caused inevitable growing pains. To combat an alarming lurch toward inflation, the Franco regime last year introduced new monetary restraints and tightened up on installment-buying. Spanish workers have expressed their discontent in a wave of walkouts, demonstrations and riots...
...catechism series, called Come to the Father, is colorfully illustrated, avoids flat doctrinal pronouncements. The accompanying manual for teachers advises: "We do not tell the children that God is this or that, but we show them what God does. It is not a question of flooding them with a wave of pious words, but rather of transmitting the Word of Life to them in such a way as to nourish their faith...
...insular firebird (meaning the sun) gives up the day, and is tucked into a corner. Order, like a giant janitor, shuttles about naming and replacing the various humanities. I look at you, you look at me -- We wave again (the same), our hands like swollen flags falling, words Marooned in the brain...